Chickens and Cats

The black hen and her chickens in their separate enclosure.  There are still 4 buff coloured chicks and 2 black chicks and they are growing fast.

Here is Arnie with Chloe and Jake on the sofa.  The kittens adore Arnie and follow him about.  He is fairly patient with them and does bring in livestock for them.  He plays with them but will tell them off if he has had enough.

Arnie weighs 7 kgs so is a very big cat.  He looks huge next to Chloe.

Chickens

We are down to 6 chickens now.  4 light and 2 black ones.  I built a separate enclosure for them on Sunday which was no mean feat with the ground being very hard.  I ended up with a blister from hammering in the posts with the sledge hammer.  Once I had secured the enclosure the fun part started.  I caught one chickens and then they all scattered.  I remembered we have a butterfly net so started chasing them with that.  One ended up outside the chook enclosure so got out to it to discover 2 of them with cats coming in all directions.  I caught them then fell over so by the time I caught them all and the hen, I was filthy.

Arnie is still home and is getting used to being locked in at night with the kittens.  Chloe followed him around and he plays with Jake.

Went to link tonight with Shilo and Rocky and was thrilled when both of them had clear rounds.  Shilo was really good on her contact and stayed until I released her.  I hope we can get a clear round this weekend.  Last weekend Shilo had 5 faults twice.  Rocky had a good run in Jumpers and knocked the last jump down.